Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard doherty

15 resultados

richard doherty Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • ASPECTS OF ARNHEM
    ebook
    ASPECTS OF ARNHEM
    RICHARD DOHERTY / DAVID TRUESDALE
    Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation Market Garden from the strategic, operational and tactical level. The role of the Allied commanders involved is scrutinized wi...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • HELMAND MISSION
    ebook
    HELMAND MISSION
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    After celebrating St. Patricks Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistans Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training the nascent Afghan National Army (ANA) and many of its engagements were alongsi...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • EL ALAMEIN 1942
    ebook
    EL ALAMEIN 1942
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommels Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political implications for the Allies. That this never happened is, of course, well kn...

    $279.00

    Ver detalle
  • EL ALAMEIN 1942
    ebook
    EL ALAMEIN 1942
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommels Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political implications for the Allies. That this never happened is, of course, well kn...

    $279.00

    Ver detalle
  • CHURCHILL'S GREATEST FEAR
    ebook
    CHURCHILL'S GREATEST FEAR
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill's term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945.This superbly researched work covers all the major aspects of The Battle, balancing the initial advantages of Admiral Doenitz...

    $279.00

    Ver detalle
  • HOBART'S 79TH ARMOURED DIVISION AT WAR
    ebook
    HOBART'S 79TH ARMOURED DIVISION AT WAR
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    This WWII history chronicles the remarkable career of a brilliant British Army commander and the innovative armored vehicles he created. Joining the Royal Tank Corps in 1923, Major-General Percy Hobart quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armored warfare. By 1938 he was GOC Mobile Division, later 7th Armored Division, in Egypt. He was also known for no...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • IN THE RANKS OF DEATH
    ebook
    IN THE RANKS OF DEATH
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal Navy, including a Fleet Air Arm pilot, four soldiers, including a member of t...

    $149.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE THIN GREEN LINE
    ebook
    THE THIN GREEN LINE
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    Formed out of the Royal Irish Constabulary at the time of Partition, the RUC's history is predictably a turbulent one right through to its replacement in 2001 by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Few police forces in the world have suffered so grievously as the RUC and this book is a fitting memorial to the sacrifices made in the interests of the civil population it was d...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • ASPECTS OF ARNHEM
    ebook
    ASPECTS OF ARNHEM
    RICHARD DOHERTY / DAVID TRUESDALE
    Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation Market Garden from the strategic, operational and tactical level. The role of the Allied commanders involved is scrutinized wi...

    $383.99

    Ver detalle
  • VICTORY IN ITALY
    ebook
    VICTORY IN ITALY
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    A detailed history of the final Allied offensive in Italy during World War II. While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to the Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy. Superb generalship (Truscott—5th Army and McCreery—8th Army under General Mark Clark's 15 Army Group), planning, preparation ...

    $334.00

    Ver detalle
  • VICTORY IN ITALY
    ebook
    VICTORY IN ITALY
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    A detailed history of the final Allied offensive in Italy during World War II. While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to the Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy. Superb generalship (Truscott—5th Army and McCreery—8th Army under General Mark Clark's 15 Army Group), planning, preparation ...

    $299.00

    Ver detalle
  • BRITISH ARMOURED DIVISIONS AND THEIR COMMANDERS, 1939–1945
    ebook
    BRITISH ARMOURED DIVISIONS AND THEIR COMMANDERS, 1939–1945
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that armoured divisions came into their own. The terrain was ideal and six such divisions of Eighth Army fought Rommel's Panzers...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY, 1943-45
    ebook
    EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY, 1943-45
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting b...

    $149.00

    Ver detalle
  • EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY, 1943-45
    ebook
    EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY, 1943-45
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting b...

    $149.00

    Ver detalle
  • CHURCHILL'S GREATEST FEAR
    ebook
    CHURCHILL'S GREATEST FEAR
    RICHARD DOHERTY
    The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill's term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 September 1939 and ending with the torpedoing of SS Avon Dale on 7 May 1945.This superbly researched work covers all the major aspects of The Battle, balancing the initial advantages of Admiral Doenitz...

    $279.00

    Ver detalle